The “Crazy/Stupid” Republican of the Day blog usually can just make a daily post where we talk about a member of the GOP who has run for, held, or currently holds office who is a bit extreme or unhinged, and cover it in a few hundred words. Donald J. Trump, is beyond most Republicans, and has spent decades running to the media to say racist, sexist, bigoted, and completely ignorant things. We covered his downright selfish and narcissistic tendencies from the first 69 years of his life in our first deep dive of this series…
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part One: The Beginnings to his Presidential Run
Our second look featured events taking place from Donald Trump announcing his candidacy for president, to accepting the GOP nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention…
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Two: The Path to the 2016 Nomination
In our third chapter, we covered the absolutely bonkers final four months leading to Election Day 2016, including all the collusion:
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Three: The Final Run to Election Day 2016
In the fourth part in this series, where we discuss the Trump transition, a roughly three month period that any sane person who follows politics might have blocked out of their memory for the good of their own sanity.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Four: The Trump Transition
We discuss a great deal of stupid and sometimes illegal things done as Trump prepared to go to Washington, D.C., as well as his assemblage of his “Cabinet of Horrors”.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Five: The First 100 Days
From an anemic inauguration, to the initial panic of having a moron running the country, the first hundred days.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Six: Days 101-200
We continue as Trump blunders and fires FBI Director James Comey, the Mueller investigation begins, and Trump threatens “Fire and Fury” upon North Korea.
- August 9th, 2017: Trump opens his day by lying on Twitter and claiming that he revamped the American nuclear arsenal.
North Korea responds to Trump’s threats of “fire and fury” if they keep threatening the U.S. by threatening Guam.
An open feud breaks out between Donald Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, and Trump starts pushing for McConnell to step down as Senate Majority Leader for failing to get the Affordable Care Act repealed.
- August 10th, 2017: Trump comments on the North Korea situation again, saying that his “fire and fury” comments “may have not been tough enough”. And, if you think that’s empty talk, you’re probably right, because his solution to the conflict is “Let’s see what they do to Guam.”
He also changed his mind about the opioid crisis, and declared it a national emergency.
And, completing a Trump hat trick for the day, from his Bedminister golf course, he managed to thank Vladimir Putin for demanding the United States cut the number of people it had working at the U.S. Embassy in Russia, saying that the idea “would save money”.
- August 11th, 2017: Trump is apparently not satisfied with the threat of war looming with North Korea because of his incompetence, and follows up on threatening them with war by also threatening Venezuela.
- August 12th, 2017: Following civil unrest stemming from Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists terrorizing Charlottesville, Virginia through the weekend, Donald Trump responds and blames “many sides” for the violence that results in three deaths, including counter-protester Heather Heyer.
- August 13th, 2017: While Trump returns to New York City to spend a few days at Trump Tower, the White House staff defend him from criticism over his appalling response to the events in Charlottesville. Reports begin to circulate, however, that General H.R. McMaster and Steve Bannon are feuding within the White House, trying to force the other to be given the boot.
- August 14th, 2017: Word begins circulating the Trump is considering a presidential pardon for notorious racist Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, convicted of contempt of court for ignoring a court order to stop racist policies by his sheriff’s department.
Trump’s approval rating in the Gallup poll falls to his all-time low of 34%.
- August 15th, 2017: After days of the White House trying to do damage control after Trump’s disappointing comments following the events in Charlottesville, he manages to make it worse when he conducts a press conference at Trump Tower where he again plays the “many sides” angle, and insists that there were “many fine people on both sides”, making his own White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, lower his head in shame as Trump says it. He then also promotes Trump wineries (because why not also be tone deaf after a national tragedy), even though as president, he is no longer supposed to be using his government position to endorse any products sold by his former businesses.
The Congressional Budget Office also reported that based on proposed executives orders being pitched by Donald Trump regarding health insurance subsidies, he could be raising the average American’s health insurance premiums by 20%.
And on Twitter, Trump continues his attacks on the media, re-Tweeting a doctored video showing a CNN reporter being run over by a train, while also endorsing Luther Strange’s re-election to the U.S. Senate.
Meanwhile, for how a real president should respond to such a tragedy, President Obama’s response became the most liked Twitter post in history.
- August 16th, 2018: Trump goes back on vacation to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. Meanwhile, the CBO publishes a report that the Trump administration’s plans to privatize the air traffic control industry would add $100 billion annual to the budget deficit.
- August 17th, 2018: On Twitter, Trump spends most of his day insulting sitting Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake for criticizing him over his remarks on Charlottesville, before posting a response to a terror attack in Barcelona where he advocates for attacking Muslims with bullets dipped in pig blood based on the century-old urban legend he believes is fact about U.S. General John Pershing.
- August 18th, 2018: Steve Bannon is forced out of the White House like a tumor being excised.
Billionaire Carl Icahn stepped down as an advisor on economic reform to Trump.
Meanwhile, Lynn Patton, a former aide to Eric Trump, is given a high-ranking job in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in spite of the fact that the resume she turned in was only one page long, and she has no experience in housing.
- August 19th, 2018: A planned “free speech” rally by about 20 White Nationalists was run out of town by thousands of counter-protesters, who weren’t about to let Charlottesville happen again. Trump responds by complaining about the counter-protesters on Twitter, calling them “anti-police agitators”.
With his approval ratings completely in the toilet, and an unfriendly audience likely awaiting him at the event, Trump announces both he and the First Lady would be skipping the annual Kennedy Center Honors.
- August 20th, 2017: The USS John McCain collided with a tanker in the South Pacific, leaving 10 sailors missing. President Trump’s response to the tragedy, “that’s too bad”, was underwhelming, to say the least.
Meanwhile, a Washington Post report reveals that the GOP has been doing what it can to funnel money to Trump’s businesses, having spent $1.3 million at his properties at their events in the past year.
- August 21st, 2017: Always a complete f***ing moron, Trump is at the White House during a viewing of a solar eclipse, and against all medical and safety warnings, stares directly into the eclipse without eye protection, even though he was given protective glasses. On Twitter, Trump posts twice to complain about the “FAKE NEWS”.
- August 22nd, 2017: Trump goes to a evening rally in Phoenix, Arizona, where the number of counter-protestors outside dwarves the number of attendees inside. At it, he blames the media for how they reported on his disgusting comments after Charlottesville while saying they were “trying to take away our history and our heritage” (echoing the arguments of the Neo-Confederate White Supremacists who attacked the citizens of Charlottesville), starts ranting about Antifa (because he’s still going “both sides”), praises Sheriff Joe Arpaio (who was convicted of ignoring court orders to stop racist policies) and hints that he will pardon him, asking his most fervent supporters if they would like it if he did so. Outside the rally, the Phoenix Police Department use tear gas and use flash-bangs on the counter-protestors without cause or warning, leading to an investigation that confirms they used excessive force. On site video proves police reports of rocks being thrown were false, and the only objects thrown of any kind were water bottles which came from a parking garage where officers were stationed. Funny, that.
- August 23rd, 2017: Trump goes to another rally in Reno, Nevada, where he reads off a tele-prompter, and it is obviously not the same man who spoke the night before in Phoenix, as he calls for “unity”.
- August 24th, 2017: Trump, on Twitter, again complains about “FAKE NEWS” media coverage of his speeches from the previous days, meanwhile, Hurricane Harvey barrels down on southeast Texas, bringing floods not equaled in over a half-century.
- August 25th, 2017: Trump criticizes his own party’s Congressional lawmakers for not working out an agreement to raise the debt limit. He also pardons Sheriff Joe Arpaio, announcing the move on Twitter, and signs a memo to try and get the Pentagon to enforce a transgender ban on troops, against the advice of all military advisers. The only good news of the day is that Neo-Nazi White House adviser Sebastian Gorka is forced out of his post, with the only work he did for eight months being trips onto Fox News to spread lies.
- August 26th, 2017: A Washington Post report that Trump was asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions about pardoning Joe Arpaio for days before doing so. Trump gets bipartisan criticism for the move, in any event, for ignoring the rule of law.
- August 27th, 2017: Days after police in Phoenix used excessive force to disperse crowds of protestors outside of a Trump rally, Trump rescinds a ban in place to provide military gear to local police departments.
A Washington Post investigation reveals that even while he campaigned for president in 2016, Trump was secretly negotiating with Russian leaders for the right to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump pal Felix Sater, wrote in e-mails to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to brag that the real estate deal would “will get Donald elected”.
- August 28th, 2017: Trump admits to being disappointed that “ratings weren’t higher” when he pardoned lawless racist Joe Arpaio while the country was too busy worrying about Hurricane Harvey efforts. Trump also continued to demand Mexico pay for his border wall, but they refused, again, because they were too busy assisting rescue and recovery efforts from Hurricane Harvey, like you’d think a country that is your ally would do.
- August 29th, 2017: If it wasn’t already plainly clear that Donald Trump is a sociopath incapable of showing any empathy towards another human being, he went to Texas to meet hurricane victims, and seemed to think it was more important that the survivors were there to greet HIM, shouting, “Look at this crowd! What a turnout!”
- August 30th, 2017: Trump releases a statement claiming his proposed tax cuts will stimulate the economy. (Hint: He’s lying.)
The Trump White House deletes a report about a commitment to ending sexual assault originally posted in 2014 from its website.
Meanwhile, Betsy DeVos promotes Julian Schmoke, Jr. to run the branch of the Dept. of Education that investigates fraud. Schmoke, himself, was found guilty and paid a $100 settlement of defrauding students while an executive for DeVry University.
- August 31st, 2017: The Trump administration slashes funds that promote and encourage sign-ups for the Affordable Care Act.
One quarter of a Trump administration panel on cybersecurity turns in their resignations, with the combined reasons being his remarks about Charlottesville, and the fact that his administration is not taking any of their warnings about Russian interference seriously.
- September 1st, 2017: As rumors begin swirling that the Trump administration will not continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program against the advice of even Paul Ryan and Republicans in districts with Hispanic constituents, Trump has the balls to tell reporters, “We love the Dreamers”. (Unless he meant to add the sentence with “in cages”, he’s lying.) The administration puts off their decision on DACA until Tuesday.
Reports surface that Robert Mueller has the original draft of the letter published by the White House that gave a completely different reason for FBI Director Jim Comey’s firing. So Trump, on Twitter, decides to spread conspiracy theories about how Comey “exonerated Hillary Clinton” as part of a “rigged system”.
- September 2nd, 2017: Reports out of North Korea are that they have tested a missile-ready nuclear bomb. Trump, as you would expect, responds with a Tweet-storm, writing, “North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States… North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success… South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!" Note, of course, that Trump’s statement manages to blame both of the nations we need to work with us in negotiations, which is a surefire way to make them want to help bring North Korea to the negotiating table with us.
The Department of Justice releases a statement confirming that there were no “wire-tapps” on Trump Tower by the Obama administration, as Commander Dementia lied about on Twitter previously.
- September 3rd, 2017: Two days prior to the official announcement, word leaks that Trump will end DACA, triggering a massive immigration crisis.
- September 4th, 2017: Trump, on Labor Day, posts on Twitter about American products helping to build our future. Critics note, no product created by the Trump Corporation or Ivanka Trump’s fashion line is made in America.
- September 5th, 2017: Trump officially ends DACA, and punts any immigration reform to be handled by Congress (and later sabotages efforts for any sort of tentative compromise that isn’t extreme).
He also nominates Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine, a climate change denier, to be the head of NASA.
- September 6th, 2017: Trump sabotages his own party’s Congressional leaders by agreeing to a three month funding of the federal government with Democratic Party leaders.
Meanwhile, 15 state attorney generals sue the Trump administration for ending DACA.
- September 7th, 2017: FBI Director Christopher Wray gives an update on the White House’s efforts to prevent Russian election hacking in 2018 and beyond. Specifically, that there had been no effort made to stop it.
Meanwhile, word comes out about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russians in Trump Tower during the 2016 election, and that he admitted in his closed-door testimony with the Senate that he was trying to get information on Hillary Clinton’s “fitness, character, or qualifications” for the presidency.
On Twitter, the president lies and says that those who are to be affected by DACA ending have “nothing to worry about”.
- September 8th, 2017: Stories continue to circulate about a return to the hostility between Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
Word is out that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be interviewing Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, Don McGahn, and Sean Spicer regarding statements made by the administration in regards to his son’s meeting with Russians in Trump Tower that could constitute obstruction of justice.
- September 9th, 2017: Trump warns people of the approach of Hurricane Irma in Florida, after his White House staff counsel him on focusing on the disaster, and not using his Twitter to further random feuds as he did during Hurricane Harvey.
- September 10th, 2017: Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida.
- September 11th, 2017: Trump campaigned in 2016 on ending the opioid crisis. Nine months into his presidency, and he had yet to even declare it a national emergency or propose any solutions, as estimates climb to 142 Americans dying from opiate overdoses a day.
- September 12th, 2017: Trump, on Twitter, again says those writing articles and books about him are “FAKE NEWS”.
Trump’s Department of Justice again fail to live up to their name, announcing they will drop all federal charges against six Baltimore police officers who were charged with excessive force during the arrest and transport of Freddie Gray.
Meanwhile, at her daily press conference, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggests the DOJ should conduct a criminal investigation into the activities of former FBI Director James Comey.
- September 13th, 2017: At the daily White House Press conference on this day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggests that ESPN should fire Sportscenter co-anchor Jemele Hill for having said on her social media account that Donald Trump is a “white supremacist who has surrounded himself with other white supremacists”.
- September 14th, 2017: Negotiations over a solution on immigration between Trump and Democratic leaders break down over his insistence on getting money to build his border wall (the one Mexico’s supposed to pay for according to him), and he contradicts House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that citizenship was discussed during negotiations, at all, in reports.
Trump, on Twitter, alternates between discussing the issue by claiming he and no one else want to deport Dreamers serving in the military (Hint: His administration will be doing this by March of 2018), and raging about Hillary Clinton, because she just released a book. He is, by this point, already neglecting victims of Hurricane Irma in Puerto Rico at a crucial time.
- September 15th, 2017: Trump only waits minutes after a terror attack in London, to use it to promote his proposed Muslim ban without any facts. He offers no condolences to any victims. The Brits are, obviously, pissed off.
For the second straight day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders called on ESPN to fire Jemele Hill. On Twitter, Trump lies and claims ESPN is losing subscribers over political statements.
- September 16th, 2017: The Justice Department refuses a federal court order to release the visitor’s lists to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where he has held several “working vacations” already during his presidency.
- September 17th, 2017: Trump lowers the bar twice in one day on Twitter, re-Tweeting a video of himself knocking over Hillary Clinton with a golf ball he hits from the account of a White Nationalist, and then making relations with North Korea even more tense as he taunted Kim Jong Un by calling him “Rocket Man” to respond to their nation coming closer to developing nuclear missile capabilities.
- September 18th, 2017: Trump’s lawyers show they’re absolutely the men you’d expect to be defending the president during “Stupid Watergate”, as they openly discuss the Russia probe over lunch in New York City at a restaurant a block away from the New York Times’ offices, where their reporters often snag lunch. So, yes, they are overheard spilling details quite easily.
- September 19th, 2017: Trump speaks at the UN where he threatens to “totally destroy North Korea”
if they do not cease hostilities. Needless to say, diplomats present were less than thrilled.
- September 20th, 2017: China expresses polite displeasure with the way Trump is “helping” with North Korean negotiations.
Ivanka Trump makes it clear she has no purpose at the White House as a supposed adviser to the president, other than to bilk taxpayers out of a paycheck, as in an interview Ivanka states she feels she has “no obligation to moderate her father”.
Bob Mueller and his team of investigators give a laundry list of 13 actions they require of the White House.
Hurricane Maria, the third hurricane in a month, makes landfall in Puerto Rico.
- September 21st, 2017: On Twitter, Trump lies and says that the latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Graham-Cassidy Healthcare Act covers pre-existing conditions. He’s lying again, it doesn’t.
- September 22nd, 2017: Trump goes to Alabama to campaign on behalf of Luther Strange, but spends more time talking about himself or calling for a boycott of the NFL over a small minority of players protesting police violence during the national anthem than Strange, the man he’s there to endorse.
The Graham-Cassidy Healthcare act has no hope of succeeding after John McCain, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul all confirm they’re against it.
Meanwhile, Trump administration Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is revealed to have spent over $300,000 of taxpayer money on private travel.
- September 23rd, 2017: Trump, still not satisfied with his attacks on NFL players protesting during the national anthem, continues them on Twitter, calling for players who protest to be fired.
The U.S. military flew bombers within a stone’s throw of Pyongyang as a show of force, as Trump again got on Twitter to get into a juvenile name-calling spat with “Little Rocket Man”, prompting more threats from the DPRK.
- September 24th, 2017: This football Sunday, the number of NFL players protesting during the national anthem hit all-time highs in response to Donald Trump’s comments.
After all of the criticism the Trump campaign had in 2016 about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State, it’s revealed that several Trump White House members are using private e-mail to do government business, including Jared Kushner.
- September 25th, 2017: Yet again, Donald Trump attempts to impose his Muslim travel ban, this time expanding his list of countries to eight, and bizarrely including Venezuela to prove that it isn’t only about Muslims.
Five days after Hurricane Maria has devastated Puerto Rico, locals note there is little to no response from FEMA and the Trump administration, compared to the responses to Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida. (Several Trump administration officials seem to have a disconnect that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and that it’s not a foreign country and a part of the union.)
- September 26th, 2017: Against all reason, Trump starts claiming he’s been given “high marks” for his response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. On the same day, Sen. Marco Rubio was actually in San Juan, and reported power outages that meant anyone having a medical crisis like a heart attack or stroke would automatically see their lives in jeopardy.
The head of the DEA, Chuck Rosenberg, resigns, citing that his own president and his administration don’t respect the law.
- September 27th, 2017: It is noted that unlike during Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Irma, Trump chose not to waive the Jones Act to allow maritime laws against foreign aid to be given to hurricane stricken territories.
What he was more focused on, was cutting the amount of refugees from around the globe that the United States was willing to offer sanctuary to down to a record low of 45,000.
He was also enraged after his endorsement of Luther Strange didn’t win him the GOP nomination in the special election for U.S. Senate in Alabama, and it was won by the other candidate, Roy Moore.
On Twitter, Trump tries claiming that it was in fact, Facebook, the New York Times, and Washington Post who had colluded against him.
- September 28th, 2017: With no major legislation passed yet by his administration, and the Obamacare repeal being a complete failure, Trump starts making noise about wanting Republicans on Capitol Hill to work on tax reform for the wealthiest Americans.
- September 29th, 2017: Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is fired after a week of reports about him abusing his office.
Several reports about Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke giving himself perks, gifts, and travel on taxpayer expense also begin to surface.
A Tax Policy Center analysis of Donald Trump’s tax plan reveals that it primarily benefits the Top 1% of earners in the United States, and every year it is in effect, it places more and more of the burden on the remaining 99% of the country.
- September 30th, 2017: If there’s two things that Donald Trump hates, it’s being criticized by minorities, and being criticized by women. And when a woman of color calls him on his bulls***, he really can’t take it. It’s proven again on this date when Trump gets on Twitter to start insulting the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin Cruz, for having the nerve to speak out about how his administration had not adequately responded to the humanitarian crisis in her country after Hurricane Maria.
- October 1st, 2017: Trump continues his feud with Carmen Yulin Cruz on social media, prior to his trip to Puerto Rico, calling her “ungrateful” and “nasty”.
Trump also undermined his own Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, saying he was “wasting his time” by trying to negotiate with North Korea directly. (Trump would, of course, eventually try to negotiate directly with Kim Jong Un himself in a few months’ time, because of course he would.)
In the late hours of the day, gunman Stephen Paddock carries out the worst mass shooting in American history, firing semi-automatic weapons out of the window of his Mandalay Bay hotel room into a crowd of concert-goers outside, killing 50 people and injuring hundreds before turning a gun on himself before he could be arrested by authorities.
- October 2nd, 2017: Only hours removed from the deaths of 50 people in Las Vegas, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders chastises the media for asking questions about gun control insisting it’s “not the time”, because it’s never the time for Republicans, is it? She says that people should “look to Chicago”, where 4,000 victims of gun related crimes have happened, forgetting to note that most of the guns in that city are bought in adjacent states without gun control, and then brought in.
More documents appear implicating Trump’s businesses and Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign.
- October 3rd, 2017: Trump visits Puerto Rico, and makes it really clear that he’s mailing in any semblance of caring, because hey, it’s not like the island is filled with white people. He distributes aid, by which we mean he tosses paper towels to a crowd of Puerto Ricans casually as if he’s shooting hoops.
Another Trump Cabinet member faces an ethics scandal, this time it’s EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt, who’s revealed to be having all sorts of shady dealings with the very companies he’s supposed to be regulating.
- October 4th, 2017: Trump gives an interview to Geraldo Rivera of Fox News, and casually talks about Puerto Rico’s $75 billion of debt and says, “We’ll have to wipe that out.” White House officials spend the next day walking back that statement, and that there are no plans to eliminate Puerto Rico’s debts.
A former State Department official reports that Rex Tillerson referred to Trump as “a f***ing moron”. This one is a bit harder to walk back, but on Twitter Trump insists it is “FAKE NEWS”.
- October 5th, 2017: Rumors are out that Trump would not re-certify the Iran nuclear treaty on the October 12th deadline.
Ivana Trump re-emerged from her crypt to claim that her ex-husband had offered to make her the new Ambassador to her native Czechoslovakia.
On Twitter, Trump not only rants about “fake news”, but asks why the Senate Intelligence Committee doesn’t investigate the press instead of the Russian interference on the 2016 election.
- October 6th, 2017: The Trump administration decides to reverse another Obama-era executive order out of spite, this one on the birth control mandate on health insurance coverage, and the ACLU immediately files a lawsuit.
- October 7th, 2017: Trump continues his hostile rhetoric towards North Korea, saying “only one thing will work” to handle the nation.
- October 8th, 2017: Trump unveils his opening demands for immigration reform after he killed DACA, and they are so extreme that it seems impossible to even negotiate from his positions.
- October 9th, 2017: Trump, on Twitter, praises Mike Pence for walking out of an NFL game before kickoff due to national anthem protests. Taxpayers paid for Pence’s security and travel for this little PR stunt.
Meanwhile, Scott Pruitt announces a Trump administration rollback of the Clean Power Plan.
- October 10th, 2017: Trump responds to earlier news that Rex Tillerson called him “a f***ing moron” by telling a reporter that he would be willing to challenge Tillerson to taking competing IQ tests to prove he is smart.
Trump yet again starts attacking a U.S. Senator from his own party on Twitter, taunting “Liddle Bob Corker” because he has the intellect of a junior high bully who was already held back a year or two. He also lied and claimed ESPN was “tanking” in ratings, name-dropping Jemele Hill as a reason.
- October 11th, 2017: Vanity Fair runs a less than flattering report about a White House victim to Donald Trump’s violent mood swings and how the president was “unraveling”, including a staff member who dished about Trump screaming “I hate everyone in the White House!” and a Republican Senator referring to White House staff as “running an adult daycare”. It also revealed that Trump walked in one day and demanded a “tenfold increase in our nuclear arsenal” which is what prompted Rex Tillerson to say he was “a f***ing moron”.
NBC News also reported that during Justin Trudeau’s White House visit, Trump complained to him about how the press were allowed to write stories about him he didn’t particularly like, y’know, like the First Amendment lets them do. And he also threatened Trudeau that he would terminate NAFTA (which he can’t do).
Meanwhile, Trump picks Kirjsten Nielsen to be his new Director of Homeland Security, a former deputy of John Kohn Kelly’s whose reputation is that she’s a borderline white nationalist.
- October 12th, 2017: Unsatisfied with Congress for being unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump signs an executive order that sabotages it instead, and will likely lead to rising health insurance premiums for all Americans. Several of the worst “f*** you I’ve got mine” Ayn Randian guided members of the Republican Party are on hand to clap along and give him a thumbs up at the signing including Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Virginia Foxx.
A report surfaces that so far during the Trump presidency, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago has billed the Secret Service $64,000 for his visits there.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, Trump blamed Puerto Ricans for “a financial crisis of their own making”. This is weeks after Hurricane Maria hit and the island still has not restored electricity to most of the islnd after. Oh, and he whined about the “Fake News” again.
- October 13th, 2017: Trump disavows the United States’ nuclear treaty with Iran, angering all of the Western Alliance, and leaving North Korea the moral high ground in negotiations with the United States, because it’s proof that Trump will not honor any agreement made with them.
The Trump administration names Kathleen Hartnett White as their new environmental advisor, despite the fact that she once hand-waved away higher CO2 emissions and called it “the gas of life”. She also once called people who believe in global warming as believing in “a kind of paganism” among “liberal elites”.
A day after sabotaging the health insurance markets with his executive order, Trump posts on Twitter, “The Democrats Obamacare is imploding Massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. Dems should call me to fix!” Which indicates he doesn’t think anyone is paying attention.
- October 14th, 2017: European leaders ignore Donald Trump’s disavowing of the Iran deal and all reaffirm it without the United States. On Twitter, Trump lies and claims his executive order sabotaging the ACA expanded access to healthcare and far lowered costs (the opposite would be true).
- October 15th, 2017: Lawyers for Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant and one of the many women who accuses Donald Trump of sexual assault, file a subpoena to try and have all court records of all of the cases of women who accuse Trump of sexual assault released to them.
On Twitter, Trump tries touting the successes of his first nine months on the job, and can only list two oil pipelines and a Supreme Court Justice (Note, he does not name Neil Gorsuch, because he may have already forgotten his name).
- October 16th, 2017: There is already a pattern of behavior where Trump disrespects or even denigrates those serving in the United States military. At a White House press gaggle, Trump is asked why he has yet to comment on the deaths of four American Green Berets in an ambush in Niger, and he tries to claim that other presidents don’t call families after the deaths of troops. No, really, here’s the quote, “So the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls. A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I’m able to do it.” Aides from White Houses past come forward to declare this statement the lie that it is.
Former Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion charges, and Trump starts commenting on Twitter like an idiot before his trial, which because he’s president, amounts to tampering in the case.
- October 17th, 2017: On the heels of Trump trying to claim other presidents don’t call the families of fallen troops, Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson gives an interview where she says she knows a military widow from her district who while six months pregnant, received a phone call from Trump after her husband’s death where Trump could not remember the soldier’s name, and told the widow her husband “knew what he signed up for”.
A judge in Hawaii blocks Trump’s latest Muslim travel ban.
Trump’s pick for drug czar, Congressman Tom Marino, withdraws from the nomination because after investigations, it’s revealed his actions as a member of Congress helped create the opioid crisis he’s been tapped to combat. Which, again follows the pattern that Trump’s choices for posts are the people best qualified to destroy the agency of which they’re chosen.
On Twitter, Trump blames any future insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act on Democrats, even though his executive order from days earlier will be what increase them over the next year.
- October 18th, 2017: Trump calls Congresswoman Frederica Wilson’s retelling of his phone call to a Gold Star widow a lie on Twitter, claiming he has proof that what Wilson says happened in the phone call never occurred. (He never submits this proof, which would have to have been that he records his phone calls with widows, which is pretty damned disturbing.)
Another Gold Star parent talks to the media to say that Trump called him and promised that he would send $25,000 to help them through hard financial times, but Trump never sent the money.
A report also comes out about how the Art Institute of Chicago learned Trump had been claiming since 2005 he owned the Renoir painting, “Two Sisters (On the Terrace)”. They found that strange, because their museum had owned the painting since 1933.
- October 19th, 2017: Trump meets with the Governor of Puerto Rico, and gives himself a rating of “10” for how the rescue and recover efforts on the island are going (it’s still largely without electricity or clean water).
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a friggin’ general… when faced between impugning the honor of a Gold Star Widow and a Congresswoman defending her and Trump, chooses Cadet Bone Spurs. His credibility for being the supposed calming influence within the White House never recovers.
- October 20th, 2017: On Twitter, Trump invents the statistic that “Crime rises 13% in the United Kingdom annually amid the spread of Radical Islamic Terror.” The kindest fact-checkers say that Trump “misread” reports, the rest said he was outright lying because, well, that’s what he does.
The first hints come that the Trump administration will and the Family Reunification Program for refugees that try to bring their families along to the United States with them eventually.
- October 21st, 2017: All five living ex-presidents from both parties gather in Houston for a benefit concert for victims of the three hurricanes that hit within two weeks. Trump is notably absent from the philanthropic effort and only sent in a recorded message.
Trump was far too busy sitting around on Twitter and posting claims that Facebook and the collective news media were trying to swing the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton which runs counter to the reality that Facebook was running paid stories planted by Russian trolls that denigrated Clinton with high rates of traffic, and the estimated billions of dollars of free advertising the cable news networks gave Trump by running his rallies live.
The Green Beret who died in Niger whose widow received the callous phone call from Trump is laid to rest in Florida.
- October 22nd, 2017: John McCain takes a pot-shot at Trump in an interview, talking about how wrong it was that the working class were primarily who was sent to Vietnam, while the children of the wealthy could avoid the draft if they “had a bone spur”.
On Twitter, Trump continues his attacks on Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and calling her a liar, and attacking the media for reporting on the controversy by calling them “Fake News”.
- October 23rd, 2017: The Gold Star Widow, Myesha Johnson, who Trump placed the out-of-touch phone call to, comes forward after her husband’s funeral to confirm the account of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson about the call, including that Trump never spoke her husband’s name.
Trump responds by Twitter by effectively calling the Gold Star Widow a liar.
A poll is released of U.S. service members that 1 in 4 members of our armed forces had recently witnessed expressions of White Nationalism in their ranks.
- October 24th, 2017: Upon many calls from smarter people in his party that Trump should leave Gold Star Widow Myesha Johnson out of his discourse and just move on, Trump returns to insulting Republican Senator Bob Corker on Twitter.
Meanwhile, reports surface that the Trump administration’s plans for rebuilding the power grid in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria were to award a contract to a company that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is pals with, who has only two employees. Another corruption investigation begins…
- October 25th, 2017: After a meeting with Republican Senators, Trump claims he “got a standing O” from the assembled group, but took time to insult both old rivals Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, both of whom had recently announced they wouldn’t be running for re-election, because Trump likes to kick people when they’re down.
- October 26th, 2017: Trump finally announces his plans for combating the opioid crisis… an ad campaign to deter people from using them that pundits realize is “Just Say No”, all over again (and that failed). No ads surface after his declaration anyway, and 142 Americans continue to die every day.
A report emerges that Trump will also be spending $1.75 million of taxpayer dollars to redecorate the White House.
- October 27th, 2017: In what would normally be a simple White House photo-op with children with Halloween approaching, a group of kids in simple Halloween masks are brought to the White House to meet the president ahead of the holiday. Trump bizarrely asks the Trick-O-Treaters, “You have no weight problems, That’s good, right?” Because American children don’t have enough body issues. But the children invited were the kids of several White House media correspondents, and Trump used the photo-op to insult the media, saying, “I can’t believe the media produced such beautiful children.”
On Twitter, only hours after posting a lie that there was no collusion with Russia during the 2016 election, Trump cites Fox News’ Chris Wallace, who claims there is more evidence of Democrats colluding with Russians than the other way around.
- October 28th, 2017: Trump pats himself on the back for a release of the JFK Files “ahead of schedule” (they were not ahead of schedule, and still highly redacted). On Twitter, he was he is releasing them to “put conspiracy theories to rest”, which is pretty goddamned hilarious when you remember only about a year and a half earlier, he was claiming Ted Cruz’s father had something to do with the assassination.
Trump also tries to start feuding with filmmaker Michael Moore on Twitter, who is just completing a limited engagement speaking appearance in New York, and Trump lies and claims it is a “total bomb” because it’s ending… when it was never supposed to be an ongoing show.
- October 29th, 2017: Trump starts coming unraveled, presumably about the Mueller investigation developing, as he tries to defend himself by linking the Steele Dossier to Hillary Clinton, and claiming that it is creating “Republican ANGER and UNITY”. (It really isn’t.)
An NBC News poll has Donald Trump’s approval rating at an all time low for it, 38 percent.
- October 30th, 2017: A panicked Donald Trump responds to indictments made against his second 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort, on Twitter, whining about a supposed “witch hunt” and in all caps typing, “DO SOMETHING!”
Media pundits look at the list of indictments on Manafort for a variety of state and federal charges on financial crimes, note that Trump can’t pardon the state level ones, and realize the Mueller investigation isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
- October 31st, 2017: One of the other individuals indicted in the Mueller investigation for lying to the FBI is George Papadopoulos, who Trump and White House press staff begin to try referring to as a “low level staffer”, with some calling him a “coffee boy”. The media goes through old photos, and finds several meetings of high level Trump staffers with Papadopolous seated with Trump and other high-ranking members of the campaign.
- November 1st, 2017: On Twitter, Trump lies and claims the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program” was a creation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. It was actually sponsored in 1990 by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, was passed by a bipartisan vote of 89-8, and signed by President George H.W. Bush.
- November 2nd, 2017: Trump speaks with Sen. Chuck Grassley about trying to end the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, which he bizarrely thinks allows “chain migration”, in his latest fit of xenophobia.
Under investigation in the Mueller probe, former Trump staffer Sam Clovis withdraws his name from the running to be the chief scientist of the USDA. And before you ask, no, Clovis had no real background as a scientist.
- November 3rd, 2017: A lot of panic starts when for 11 minutes, Trump’s Twitter account mysteriously is taken down. This delayed Trump from whining about why the Justice Department isn’t investigating “Crooked Hillary and the Dems”. Or fomenting dissent by claiming the 2016 Democratic primary was “rigged” and Bernie Sanders was cheated out of it. Or being racist and calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahantas” again.
Bowe Bergdahl is finally sentenced in his case and avoids jail time, with most legal experts citing Donald Trump’s ignorant insistence to comment on the case as part of the reason a more severe sentence was not handed down. Trump, of course, cannot understand that simple legal cause and effect, and is outraged.
- November 4th, 2017: Trump begins a 13 day tour of Asia, first meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He presents the Japanese PM with a cheap white baseball cap version of his campaign hats that reads, "Donald & Shinzo: Make Alliance Even Greater." Abe accepts the lame gift.
- November 5th, 2017: A mass shooter guns down a church congregation in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and from Japan, Trump tweets that he is monitoring the situation. Pundits note Trump has no commentary about preventing further tragedies, unlike when he bleats out anti-immigrant policies whenever there is a terror attack anywhere on the planet. When interviewed in Japan, Trump blames the shooting on being a “mental health problem”. Meanwhile, it’s revealed that the shooter would not have access to guns if the Air Force had properly filed paperwork on the shooter when he left the service.
- November 6th, 2017: Trump waddles into South Korea to discuss negotiations with North Korea regarding their nuclear weapons development.
- November 7th, 2017: Trump, still in South Korea, is asked about Sutherland Springs, and he actually argues that if gun control measures were greater to prevent the shooting, “you would have hundreds more dead”. (Again, even if current gun control laws had been enacted and followed properly, the shooter would not have had weapons.)
The 2017 election takes place in Virginia, with Democrats taking seats in the state legislature, and winning the Governor’s race. Trump, after several posts endorsing GOP candidate Ed Gillespie, blames his loss on “not embracing me or what I stand for”. That runs counter towards what people said in exit polls, who voted Democrat in response to Trump and his agenda.
Meanwhile, back home, the Trump administration changes the rules to allow states to decide if they want to impose work-requirements on Medicaid recipients, many of whom are physically unable to work.
- November 8th, 2017: Trump goes to China, and when he isn’t threatening North Korea on Twitter, he’s using the anniversary of the 2016 election to praise the “DEPLORABLES” (the Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists who support him) for their support, taking a photo giving a thumbs-up with such fine people as Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller.
- November 9th, 2017: Trump’s trip to China is noteworthy for the fact that after all his tough talk directed at China during the 2016 election, and since taking office, he’s a pushover when actually meeting Xi Jinping.
- November 10th, 2017: Trump, in Vietnam, is convinced to dress in traditional wear, and visibly seethes in anger, likely aware of how it doesn’t hide his corpulent frame. That may be because he ate shark fin soup, a delicacy noted for its reputation for being prepared by means that many describe as “animal cruelty”.
Meanwhile, reports in the Mueller investigation indicate that the FBI was looking into concerns that General Michael Flynn and his son had a plan to abduct and deport a cleric to Turkey where he would likely be executed by dictator Prycep Erdogan, and be paid $15 million for orchestrating the plan.
- November 11th, 2017: Trump meets with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, asks him if he meddled in the 2016 election, and just believes him over the entire collective American intelligence community.
He follows this up by getting on Twitter to insult Kim Jong Un, posting, “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old’, when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat?' Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen”.
- November 12th, 2017: Trump goes to the Philippines, and meets dictator Rodrigo Duterte, but neglects to have a concern about any number of human rights abuses carried out by the madman. Instead, he lets Duterte serenade him with a love song. No, really.
- November 13th, 2017: Reports surface that Julian Assange and Wikileaks were directly contacting Donald Trump, Jr. with advice during the 2016 presidential campaign in private messages with their Twitter accounts.
Trump names Alex Azar to be his new Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary.
- November 14th, 2017: A mass shooting takes place in Ranch Tehama, California. Trump gets confused about where a mass shooting took place, and again posts support for Sutherland Springs, Texas, instead of Ranch Tehama before quickly deleting the post.
Trump also posts on Twitter that polls that show his approval rating is in the 30s are “Fake News” and cites a Rasmussen poll (which notoriously lean right) that has him at 46%. The president just bragged about a best-case poll number that still shows he’s viewed negatively by the populace.
- November 15th, 2017: While trying to push for changes in U.S. trade, Trump desperately grabs for a bottle of water, and drinks from it with two hands like a baby, leading people who remember his mockery of Sen. Marco Rubio to laugh even harder than they should.
On Twitter, Trump continues attacking the New York Times.